Dominion just created an 'overwhelming' hurdle for Fox News: legal expert - RawStory

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Dominion just created an 'overwhelming' hurdle for Fox News: legal expert - RawStory

The massive filing by Dominion Voting Systems in its $1.6 billion defamation suit against Fox News offers convincing proof that the network was "deliberately lying" about the integrity of the 2020 presidential election, argued retired Harvard Law professor Laurence Tribe in conversation with The Guardian published on Monday.

The filing has already revealed a number of bizarre allegations, like that Fox's Maria Bartiromo moved forward with claims from pro-Trump lawyer Sidney Powell even knowing her source was a woman who claims to have received voter fraud intelligence through "time travel." But the far more damning evidence, argued Tribe, is the real-time communications of Fox hosts who clearly knew Trump's conspiracy theories were false.

"Filed last week, the 192-page document makes it clear that senior figures at Fox News from Rupert Murdoch down knew immediately after the election that claims of voter fraud, in particular those aimed at Dominion, were false," wrote Charles Kaiser. "Tucker Carlson called the charges 'ludicrous' and 'off the rails'. Sean Hannity texted about 'F’ing lunatics'. A senior network vice-president called one of the stories 'MIND BLOWINGLY NUTS'. But none of this knowledge prevented hosts from repeating lies about everything from imaginary algorithms shaving votes from Dominion machines to non-existent ties between the company and Venezuela."

Tribe, a constitutional law specialist, said this evidence is enough to find Fox News liable for defamation — it not only "establishes that Fox was not only reckless," he said, but it also shows major Fox figures were "deliberately lying and knew they were lying about the nature of Dominion’s machines and the supposed way they could be manipulated."

Link: https://www.rawstory.com/dominion-just-proved-fox-news-was-deliberately-lying-about-the-election-laurence-tribe/

[RKP5637]

1. ... and ship Murdoch out of the US, somehow. He is really functioning as a media terrorist! n/t

[Baitball Blogger]

6. +1

[JohnSJ]

7. Deport Murdoback to Australia where he came from. It has been done to nazis much to Pat Buchanan's

disappointment

[2naSalit]

11. +1

[Mopar151]

12. He's done enough shady shot to earn deportation.

If this election denial scheme, is not a crime, why do we have laws?

[RKP5637]

13. K&R !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! n/t

[Joinfortmill]

2. Wish we could kick Murdoch out of the USA.

[RKP5637]

3. K&R !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! n/t

[2naSalit]

4. I've been wishing that for at least a decade.

[Initech]

9. Shit, I've been saying this since Bush V. Gore!

Fuck Fox News!

[Disaffected]

5. You'd think

his work visa would have expired by now or, maybe he has claimed refugee status(?).

[AZSkiffyGeek]

10. I believe he's been naturalized since at least the 90s nt

[JHB]

14. Since 1985. He needed to satisfy the legal requirement for US television network ownership

Or at least, as was required back then. May have been deregulated in the time since.

[Prairie_Seagull]

8. If corporations are people then it's time for fox to get the DP

Or at least life in prison.

[ShazzieB]

15. Go, Dominion!

“I have never seen a defamation case with such overwhelming proof that the defendant admitted in writing that it was making up fake information in order to increase its viewership and its revenues,” said Tribe. “Fox and its producers and performers were lying as part of their business model.”

I'm really not surprised to hear Tribe say this. Just scanning the Table of Contents of that motion last week blew me away with its thoroughness and level of detail and the huge trove of evidence Dominion's lawyers have amassed. It's good to have my impression confirmed by an expert as astute as Tribe.

[SouthernDem4ever]

16. if there is a settlement,,,

Part of it should force all those lying bastards on Fux nooze do a 3 hour special for 4 nights in a row admitting they lied on purpose to mislead their viewing audience.

[JCMach1]

17. A good reason why we need a corporate Death Penalty

[Duppers]

18. They should receive punitive damages of $20 billion!!!

$1.6 is loss of revenue.

They should get punitive damages for hurting their business.

[Volaris]

20. You're right. If Alex jones was worth a billion, fox has got to be worth at least 10x that

[Hermit-The-Prog]

19. Dominion's brief in support of its motion for summary judgment...

https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23684885/230216-dominion-fox.pdf